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Archive for August, 2007

In a few days (September 5-7, 2007) Finland will be holding the Air Guitar World Championships. WTF, you say? I've just spent half an hour on Youtube watching Air Guitar videos, and boy I laughed hard:) Basically, it's playing the guitar, except you have no guitar. And they make local, regional, national and eventually World […][...] → Read more

Hot from the press: I got 4th spot (also known as "Consolation Prize":) at the WordPress Plugin Competition, with my (uberleet) plugin Who Sees Ads (also known as "The Ultimate Ad Management Plugin"). I'm pretty happy about it, especially given how my plugin is not geared toward the majority of WP users: most are not […][...] → Read more

Have you ever "ls -l" a file or directory, watch its "-r-x–s-wT" symbolic notation and ask to yourself: "what the hell is that chmod ?". This was the case for me several times today, so before I spent 1 minute on thinking about the notation, I decided to spent 5 minutes on a quick Perl […][...] → Read more

Hey, funny. Sony digital cameras save photos with a pattern name starting from DSC00001.JPG and incrementing. What do you think Sony users shoot for their first picture ? Boobies! :) Via delicious/popular and a very old post from Engadget.[...] → Read more

A call to nice readers: I'm looking for a registrar (just registrar, no hosting needed) which will let me completely manage my DNS, i.e. add custom DNS records (A, MX, CNAME, whatever) for an unlimited number of domains and subdomain. Which will also accept Paypal. Does anyone reading this blog have such a registrar ?[...] → Read more

Let Adii self introduce him: "I'm a freelance web designer & strategist from Cape Town, South Africa and I specialize in WordPress designs. I'm currently finishing my Honours in Business Strategy and I would love to combine traditional business models with the new principles and philosophies of Web 2.0." When Adii asked me to review […][...] → Read more

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